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As far as I know the 18 ceased in the early 80's however it is possible it may have gone sooner . The 18 was effectivly a works bus , I am unsure of its route through the city center , but I believe it was Patricks St. - Grand Parade - South Mall - Parnell Place - Clontarf St. - Albert Quay - Victoria Rd. - Center Park Rd. - Monaghan Rd. , this at the time would have linked the city certer and various city and county services with Corks then industrial heartland , some of the companies served were Odlums , Flavins , Goldcorp , IAWS , Ford car plant , Dunlop tyre plant , Esso , Bord Gais , and the city's main ESB power station along with the GAA stadium at Parc Ui Chaoimh. This was a very busy service in its time and in its heyday was a decker only service , usually seeing R's and both PDR1 and AN68 D's , I am assuming that it was post 81 when the service was withdrawn as I am told that the 218 crews had taken quite a shine to KD 49 and were hoping for one from the next batch of KD's.
The 18A was effecivly a Match bus and followed the 18 route as far as Center Park Rd and instead of turning for Monaghan Rd continued on to the Marina and Parc Ui Chaoimh's main gate.
The 18 lived on into the late 90's as a once a year special to the Cork Agricultural Show at the Showgrounds and was rostered on the day as shifts 218/1 and 218/2 , and was worked by open top D 707 some years with KD 191 normally covering for wet weather conditions , and even saw DA 3 and VW 5 on other years.
The number 18 dissappeared from the newer type number scrolls in the early 90's with the Cork specific scrolls which were the ones that finished with 11 , 12 , 14 , 15 , 19 , Blank , prior to these you had 1 - 21 with a few A's thrown in here and there and these were used for all provincial deckers I think , by 1993 a few KD's still had the older type and all the D's bar 729 and 723 had them also , only 1 or 2 KC's had them KC 149 was one , KC 97 also had one along with KC 153 , however 153 lost its one when it had a rather sudden impact with a garden wall in Glenthorn Estate.